The ligament that connects your foot bones can cause severe heel pain when inflamed. Here’s how to avoid that ...

There are 26 bones in the foot: the 14 toe bones (phalanges), five mid-foot bones (metatarsals), and seven other proximal foot bones (including the heel bone, called the calcaneus, and the talus that ...

Footwear became fashionable about 40,000 years ago, according to a study on the ancient toe bones of a Chinese person who apparently loved shoes. Most footwear erodes over time. The earliest known ...

You can tell if you have a sprained toe (also known as turf toe) because it will be painful around the main joint in your toe. This joint is surrounded and protected by structures such as soft tissue ...

Podiatrists and foot surgeons have traditionally relied on a surgical procedure called an osteotomy to correct bunions — or the painful bony bumps that form on the joint at the base of the big toe.

Breaking a bone in your foot may not be as major as fracturing larger bones, but it can still cause pain, deformity and disability.

April Leonard likes to blame her bunions on her husband. In 2017, she accompanied him to a podiatrist appointment for calluses—and went home scheduled for surgery to correct her misaligned toe bone.

Maryland surgeons rebuilt a patient's entire thumb last month using a bone from his knee and a toe.MedStar Union Memorial Hospital Drs. James Higgins and Ryan Katz of the Curtis National Hand Center ...